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Vishwanathashtakam
विश्वनाथाष्टकम्
Viśvanāthāṣṭakam
Chant
पंचाननं दुरितमत्तमतङ्गजानां नागान्तकं दनुजपुंगवपन्नगानाम् दावानलं मरणशोकजराटवीनां वाराणसीपुरपतिं भज विश्वनाथम् ॥५॥
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Word breakdown
- पंचाननं दुरितमत्तमतङ्गजानां
- Five-faced, like a forest fire to elephants maddened by sin,
- नागान्तकं दनुजपुंगवपन्नगानाम्
- destroyer of serpent-lords, chief of danuja demons and serpents,
- दावानलं मरणशोकजराटवीनां
- forest fire to the woods of death, grief, and old age,
- वाराणसीपुरपतिं भज विश्वनाथम्
- worship Vishvanatha, lord of the city of Varanasi.
Fire to sin-maddened elephants and to the forest of death, grief, and age, he consumes what binds the embodied soul; the five faces see every quarter of suffering and answer with the blaze that clears the path to the deathless.
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